Winning

Being a sport enthusiast as well a sport person for me winning or losing meant playing a game and applied to life it meant nearly the same. Being a mechanical and a cryogenic engineer, mathematical solutions were never a part of winning – as a win only meant sum total. A win-win situation is an expectation and not a solution. Relationship building involves a win-win strategy to move ahead on the grey path not idealizing the perfectionist attitude. You live and let live. Accept failure. Win is at a dead line! Parameters are measured, evaluated here and in competition the winner adjudged. For some - winning is habit and for some it’s not. Those who loose and learn from losses are richer than winners as the experience of losing and learning makes it wealthier on a path to wisdom. Arjun Vajpai a 16 year old was youngest to scale the Mt. Everest on May 22, 2010. A few hours later Jordan Romero, a 13 year old became the youngest to conquer the same Mount. Arjun in an interview said - “My sleep deprived body wanted to abandon the climb many times but I ignored the resistance of my body and resolved in mind to complete the climb” – Both their journeys were to compete within themselves. Their unidentified human potential was conquered. The journey itself was a win. Bench marks are often revised to allow human potential to unleash – that’s a win against your-self. Budha Says – “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell”. Mahatma Gandhi –“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory” – “Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.” - Vince Lombardi. Priya Kumar in her book “I am another you” says – “There is nothing wrong with the outside world, if we sort out the world inside”. I found similarity between winning and victory. Victory is about – “success in a struggle against difficulties and obstacles and a state of having triumphed”. It’s about achievement. Winning is summarized well by Ronald Reagan – “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out”.

“The 8th Habit” by Stephen Covey tell us to find our Inner Voice. May be in his words we need to conduct our own funeral as we live today and introspect what we missed and what we need to do to leave an image as we pass away. I plan a re-visit the internal thought chain and focus on what need to be done to achieve an image of the victorious me. Winning is not being THERE, winning is about putting yourself to test.

“Go further to get closer”

In the laboratory of life, there is a Law of Attraction. It is about thoughts that propel and attract health, wealth and happiness. Happiness is still an IDEA defined and appreciated and understood in a different perspective. For some it’s a search of someone to fall in love or be loved by someone. The distances are insignificant as thoughts attract and we follow. Distance is a boon in a virtual world we live. Desire catapults distances and boundaries are then insignificant. It’s about heart beats, vibrations when we reach out to people we love. Imagine speed and comfort of travel and frequency of flights to fantasy. Imagine and be there superseding speed of thoughts. Convenience counts. Being close is a matter of illusion, a feeling; being physically close is a reality. "Life without travel is like reading a book without turning a page." Experience is like turning pages of the live’s laboratory. You need to leave the shore, to see frontiers of unknown. Who knows the one whom you want to share your love is where? Put thoughts on Google search engine. Check out and “CHECK IN” at the flight desk to see what and who awaits your destiny. Nothing is far, boundaries are imaginary. Get closer and get happier through the laws of attraction.

Condition Serious Hai! - Bhai

I recollect a meeting of Alumni of my Engineering College a couple of years back. Though some of us met after many years there were seriousness on faces. The tags on their shirts indicated their name so that in spite of the fact that people and faces changed seriousness evades the way seeing the name tag and people start communicating. Some did and some did not. The agenda included introduction of self to the rest – this was a more serious affair where some of the members spoke about their career growth, how they worked in some MNC’s and their positions at the end of the career. Serious matters on targets and time schedules for the budgets that we have all seen through – but was this the time to speak about such serious things? I being the organizer looked at my old friend Bala to the stage, by-passing the sequence of introduction list. Bala came up held the mike and told a story when he arrived in the then Bombay with his University Engineering Degree from Kerala. He said - “That was my first travel in the BEST bus and came the conductor and asked him in Hindi/Marathi something he could not understand. But a keen watcher he had watched others answering when conductor enquired to them with his characteristic style. Answering the bus conductor Bala told “Balasubramaniam”. And conductor laughed and then in his broken English said “Enkai GO?” Bala understood the fool he made himself of in giving his name when asked for the destination for that day’s travel? Bala remembered the scenario when the woman on his side said “Prabhadevi” the man in front told “Haji Ali”, the good looking lady said “Annie Besant ” and the fat lady on the side said –“Mahalaxmi” None who followed were serious as the previous ones – life is simple, yar! Don’t take anything Serious – After all none of us have any control in anything that happens around us forget about what can happen to us the next moment.